Thanks but it was Adam Hoyle who organised this! Was his contact.

We could certainly do with some volunteer help here. Social media and the like is a nice fun task but requires momentum. A team of volunteers could be good here to help spread the load.

Other areas that are less time intensive included using meetup.com but this involves a fee (10-15USD per month, Pro plan should be available as 15USD given that we are non-profit) and target facebook advertising (from GBP 5).

My notes from the call:

1. action plan for the rest of the year
2. better name for mapping parties 'Map Attack'
3. press releases should be timely
4. how to get noticed???
5. pitch email should introduce the PR
6. Instagram 30 hashtags at least
7. Show Instagram feed on the home page
8. Twitter
9. Facebook seems less useful...except for local events
10. e-flyer with logos
11. broadening the appeal
12. email-only tech groups, eg STEMettes
13. listicles (towns with the most Mews...)
14. Buzzfeed Community listicles
15. Medium.com
16. put a human face to each story
17. how do you find the media? search online or go an get physical editions from the newsstand.
18. Christmas-related item
19. Who to talk to on Twitter
20. "Northampton University is now On The Map" !
21. "All of the xyzs Mapped!" ...."You've been mapped!" some fun
22. Accreditation with logo...e.g. University has been mapped
23. infographics...data + headline details + guidance on how to layout + logos

Facebook I think we under focus on. We could do a lot there without paying for ads/boosting (although that can be good). It really needs someone who enjoys/knows Facebook, and that's not me.

Instagram is like the new Twitter and seems to be edging to replace it (at least for promoting stuff and also the "this is happening now" feel). I could be up for setting up an account and doing some focus on that. Happy for people to join me if we can do teams on that.

The steer from the PR Consultant, and my experience trying to promote Open Plaques is that it is hard to get traction on Facebook without spending lots of money on advertising. It could have a strong use in targeted advertising for an event.

Instagram is interesting. OSM is visual. Given that we'd need to post at least once-a-day if not 10s-of-times-a-day what exactly would you post? People like maps, as https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/ shows, but those take individual crafting so you have to have many individuals involved. If it was me, I would autopost map renders with interesting features on...from a list of (for example) UK rude place names, wind farms, football stadiums, anything-else-interesting-that-we-could-make-a-list-of

You can also have galleries on Instagram (more than 1 photo in a post) so a photo of a real life feature (like a new bridge) and then OSM rendering of it would work well - here's a new thing and we've already mapped it sort of thing. I'd probably unfollow if someone posted more than once a day. For an organisation like OSMUK a post every few days would be enough.

Twitter and Facebook work best with graphics and photos too. I'm happy to help look after any of the social media accounts if you'd like me too. :)

@lakedistrict : Thanks for the offer. My concern, which applies whoever is running the social media, is the amount of energy to keep it active. You suggest a post every couple of days. Is this something you can manage on your own, or would you be looking for a group of people to help create content? Thanks.

P.S. Is there a group set-up for Instagram similar to twitter's tweetdeck?
P.P.S. We also can use Zapier to automate steps but from what I see this cannot post to Instagram.

@robjn A small team of people would be better, since it would mean more regular content. I'd be happy to post something and respond to any comments etc every couple of days, but contributions from other people would be welcomed.